Tom Horsley wrote:
Actually, in F12, the advanced audio control app has
a hardware control tab where one of the modes available
to operate each hardware device is "ignore". I'm now willing to
use pulse in F12 because I can make it ignore my 2nd sound
card which I dedicate to optical output from mplayer.
And for KDE users, install the latest updates (in particular, the
pulseaudio, phonon and kdebase-runtime updates), restart your KDE session if
you just updated, then go to Settings → System Settings → Multimedia and
reorder your device priorities to put the broken device to the bottom. (I'm
no sure whether deleting it outright works. I think with PA it has the same
effect as moving it to the bottom.)
Kevin Kofler